Grain Bar
grainbar.com.au is mostly ready for agents.
Listed by Overture Maps.
Ways to reach Grain Bar directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-18. On the business's own site. Report a mistake
199 George St, 2000, Sydney · +61292503118
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open Grain Bar's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.
55 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.
What assistants answer
Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.
The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.
How Grain Bar compares
308 of 2,594 in Sydney cafes and bars
Top 12% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Gloria Jean's B, Good George B. Just below: Gusto Espresso Bar B, Jolene's B.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 99% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 95% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 32% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 23% | no |
The top 10% are the 265 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with BentoBox 1,235 sites | 84% | 95% | 84.6% |
| Sites using BentoBox 471 sites | 83% | 93% | 84.6% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cabana | 39 m | B | yes |
| Jackson's on George - The Rooftop | 76 m | B | yes |
| Gloria Jean's Coffees | 77 m | C | no |
| Maybe Sammy | 79 m | A | yes |
| Dutch Smuggler | 118 m | C | no |
| 36 Levels Above | 124 m | C | yes |
| Besuto japanese | 133 m | B | yes |
| Avenue on George | 133 m | D | no |
| Brew Cafe | 137 m | B | yes |
| The Fortune of War | 138 m | A | yes |
Businesses like Grain Bar in Sydney cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Sydney cafes and bars | 2,594 | 54% | 30% | 84.6% |
| Sites built with BentoBox in Sydney cafes and bars | 1 | 85% | 100% | 84.6% |
| Sites using BentoBox in Sydney cafes and bars | 1 | 85% | 100% | 84.6% |
| Sites built with BentoBox and using BentoBox in Sydney cafes and bars | 1 | 85% | 100% | 84.6% |
The best of the businesses of the same kind in Sydney cafes and bars
Bar Nina A 100% · Bellevue Coffee Cart A 100% · Bloom A 100% · Cafe Xpress 31 A 100% · Cardea A 100%
After the top fixes
With the fix above (No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 25th of 2,594 in Sydney cafes and bars, up from 308th.
Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.
What to fix first
- No menu or price list found +7 points
Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it
- No llms.txt no points, but worth doing
Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. How to fix it
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in Sydney cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
- Structured data found (FoodEstablishment) address, phone, opening hours
- Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.
- Ordering through bentobox on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
Builder: bentobox · Front: cloudflare · contact page /location/contact-us/: booking via opentable; booking page /ot-reservations/: nothing new
What to paste
Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on bentobox.
Show the code to paste
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# Grain Bar > food establishment in 199 George St, 2000, Sydney, Sydney cafes and bars. Phone +61292503118. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://www.grainbar.com.au/ot-reservations/ (on the business's own site) - Order: https://getbento.com/?utm_source=header&utm_campaign=grainbar.com.au (through bentobox acting for the business) ## About - Website: http://www.grainbar.com.au/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Own this business?
If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.
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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Show the score
Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/grainbar.com.au"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/grainbar.com.au.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
What agents get, and what the site publishes
The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.
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What agents get for Grain Bar
The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/grainbar.com.au, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/sydney-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | www.grainbar.com.au/ot-reservations/ own site | found by the scan of 2026-10-18, not yet tested |
| Order | getbento.com/?utm_source=header&utm_campaign=grainbar.co vendor on own site: BentoBox | found by the scan of 2026-10-18, not yet tested |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +61292503118 |
Stable links that count: /go/grainbar.com.au/book, /go/grainbar.com.au/order answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.
Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.
Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.
| UCP profile /.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol | no |
| ACP discovery document /.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol | no |
| MCP server card /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json | no |
| Ordering vendor that takes agent orders Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents | no |
Found one hop past the home page: contact page /location/contact-us/: booking via opentable.
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | no how |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |